V-Day, ©2005-6, oil/canvas, 59"x59" |
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Currently on Exhibit
Roy Boyd Gallery |
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William Conger’s oil paintings are formal compositions of color, shape, and line. They are both organic and geometric, flat and illusionist. Titles often hint at landscape, architecture, figures, and history. But his paintings don’t depict anything specific. Instead, ambiguous references and meanings are complex and open to subjective interpretation as metaphors of both painting and selfness. Conger’s paintings celebrate the dynamic energy and narratives of contemporary urban life existing between order and disorder, stasis and change. In that respect they engage paradox and fantasy. In his newer work, brightly colored and freely thrusting shapes and looping lines are interwoven with rectilinear and organic elements. |
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Last Modified 13 February 2009
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